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[16] 5/102024 Kick Back Club Recreation Night for teens with special needs held at the Park Del La Cruz Rec Center in San Diego. As part of the Imperial Sands Garrison troop that included the other clubs, Star Wars characters were requested for a themed "hang-out". Call time was 4:30 pm and from 5:30 to 7:30 pm, we participated in games, trivia, and craft-making with the teens. Good memories were made along with a few great photos. Definitely a feel-good troop!

Sorry I didn't see this earlier... this is good info. Looks like there is a sharper bend downward on the bridges at the backplate too. Still fiddling with this!

New cogs

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Nice work Just one thing the cogs look a little off, the inner red area looks too narrow, and the outer ring looks too wide, comparison. Can see it in this image also

A few build threads I find useful, especially on trimming the ears Some references of screen helmets, many had gaps Compare your middle teeth, they look a little curved

The file from the new helmet is from vek3d & walsh3D

Meanwhile into the Post Office near you.

It looks as if the WTF backplate sits up a little higher than the front, recent EIB approval And here, not as smooth a transition than other makes.

Finished my new Enoch helmet last night And here are both in comparison, new left, old right

Not to derail this thread completely, but it has been established in the TK prop nut community for quite some time now that the "painted vs. unpainted suits" theory stemmed from the fact that Simon's suit has been painted after production wrapped. Painted stormtroopers have since been debunked, even by Brian Muir himself I believe - have to check that again though. J.W. Rinzler's making of book does not mention painting the suits either. It's a one time thing on Si's suit and was misinterpreted by a whole lot of people. According to the logic of painting what was white plastic to begin with white (time-consuming and not cost-effective), all surviving ABS hero helmets accounted for these days should also be painted to match the painted suits, and not one of those shows even the slightest hint of paint. Also, if they did paint the suits white, why would they use another shade of white that so clearly contrasts the painted stunt HDPE helmets? No armor suit was ever painted white, other than maybe after filming ended. Both of your 2007 LFL archive pics taken by Matt Gauthier for the Ainsworth court case show unpainted ABS suits. The sheen of the ABS is very obvious in both of those archive pics. Check the upper left (looking at the pic) torso split rivet for the white paint smeared around the rivet head, and over the otherwise unpainted surrounding ABS, it's clearly just painted rivets in unpainted plastic, with a visible difference in the 2 shades of white. The shin shows what I believe is residue either from being re-glued the wrong way around, or just residue of tape to quickly close the shins (maybe for ESB). The shade of residue is too yellow and it's raised vs recessed, chipped off paint. Also, paint never chips in such straight, controlled lines like we see on those pics.